A Quick Tutorial on Drive Formats

I get a lot of questions from people about drive formats, and compatibility across the most prevalent operating system platforms – Windows and Mac. So I thought I’d write a short primer on the formats for use with and between these two primary operating systems. NTFS, HFS+, FAT – These are the primary formats that are [...]

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